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Soltek SL-865Pro-775 (Hybrid) 'ProSeries' Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Thursday, August 12, 2004
Benchmarks - Synthetic
The system as it was tested
Soltek SL-865Pro-775 (Springdale)
Pentium 4 530 (3.0Ghz) 1MB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
XFX FX5700 Ultra
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Pentium 4 530 (3.0Ghz) 1MB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
OEM Heatsink
2x Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
XFX FX5700 Ultra
IBM Hitachi Deskstar 80gig SerialATA 7200RPM
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Reference System
DFI Infinity 865PE (Springdale)
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair TwinX 3200LL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra 1600XP
2x Western Digital Raptor SATA/150 RAID 0
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
Pentium 4 3.0Ghz 512KB L2 cache 800MHz FSB
AVC Sunflower II Heatsink
2x Corsair TwinX 3200LL ProSeries DDR400 512megs
Gainward Ultra 1600XP
2x Western Digital Raptor SATA/150 RAID 0
Antec 430watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
CPU-Z
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks
that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these were
recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2004.8.9.131
Cachemem
Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.
The numbers here seem to be all over the board, in a few Sandra tests the 775 board appears to be slower than the similarly equipped DFI board. A variety of things are happening here, on the DFI side we have "SuperPatch" memory optimizations and a faster video card. The Soltek 775 board does not have the MBA enabled and is tested with a slower video card. These two factors alone will affect memory bandwidth and Multimedia performance though it is the lower Corsair 3200XL memory timings that are providing the boost in the Cachemem latency scores.
